Another lock-down ride, this time from Pirbright village green. I followed the Basingstoke Canal for a bit, then worked a circuit around the perimeter of the MOD Pirbright Range. Here's a Komoot.
This ride complements the one I did the other day over Ash Ranges to the south of the Basingstoke Canal. The main Pirbright Range is permanently closed to the public because of the risk from UX ordnance, but the training area at the South-West corner around Porridgepot Hill was open to the public on the day I went, as was the Druver Training Area t the North West. Don't know if that's normal, or just a one-off during lock-down. Having made my circuit via the summit of High Curley and Bisley, I cut through to the Canal again via Sheets Heath, and called in at CWGC Brookwood Military Cemetery, an unexpected surprise, a moving place, deserted in the evening sunshine.
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| Join the Basingstoke Canal towpath heading West |
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| Basingstoke Canal |
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| Road from the Canal to the Training Area near Deepcut |
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| Climbing Porridgepot Hill |
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| Typical track in the training area |
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| Following the perimeter fence |
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| The path by the fence got quite tricky: I should have cut away sooner |
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| There are some views over the fence and trees |
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| The MOD Driver Training Area on the slopes of High Curley |
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| Summit of High Curley, a good viewpoint, and not that well known (to me) |
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| Rhododendron |
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| On the Northern perimeter of Pirbright Range |
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| Path along Eastern perimeter fence |
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| Bisley Common |
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| Footbridge on Sheets Heath |
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| Memorial to those who died overseas with no known grave eg in Norway and on special operations |
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